Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-05
THE CITY BY THE SALT LAKE.
A TALE.

a TALE.
Once there stood on the banks of a
mighty Salt Lake city. And the city
was fair to the sight, and was even more
fortunate still, for it was endowed by
nature with all the elements of strength.
And the ears of the city were open, and
it hearkened to its own destiny, and
struggled to become great. But within
its walls were men who were factious,
and turbulent, greedy and vain, AFRO
CANT and tyrannical, as well as
those who were lovers of their
city, and who desired to build it
up that it might be a monument unto
itself. And the good men and true of
the city took counsel one with another
and said, "Let us summon hither from
the East and from the West, men who
will help US to make our city great and
powerful. Men who have money in their
hands. Men who are quick to see and
prompt to act These men we will make
part of ourselves. We will work to-
gether. Our home shall be their home,
our interests shall be their in
terests, and we will strive to-
gether, and we shall become
great" And even as the good
and the true of the wise of
the city said it was done. And the
men spoken Of were invited hither, and
they began to come.
But then the evil men of the city by
the Salt Lake took counsel together, and
said one to another: "Shall we suffer
this thing? Behold strange men come,
and they will share in the possession OF
the things we claim for our own. Their
numbers will prevail. They will crowd
us aside, and we will no longer be able
to grasp with the strong hand, or
listen to the words Of authority from
our own lips" And though the evil
men of the City of the Salt Lake agreed
in nothing else, they agreed in this.
Their arrogance and their assumptions,
their wrestings and their impositions,
were threatened. The danger was COM
mon, and they banded together to meet
it. And the evil men said one to an
other, "Let us go and meet the strangers
on the outskirts of the city and deceive
them, that they enter not in" And
they met the strangers even as they
had said, and they deceived them,
and misrepresented the City by
the Salt Lake and its people in all things.
And the words of the good and the true
and the wise of the city were of no avail.
The strangers said: eve cannot enter
in for we are afraid" And so the men
from the East and from the West who
were come to make the city by the Salt
Lake their home, and contribute largely
to its wealth and greatness, turned about
and departed.
And the city was left even as it was,
and the evil men rejojced greatly saying
"Now We are safe again. We have
driven those away whose numbers and
wealth would have overthrown our evil
strength" And things went on as before
in the City by the Salt Lake.
But the good and the true and the wise
of the city despaired not. They again
took counsel with each other. And this
time they strengthened themselves with
the people of the city, even with men of
all classes. And the power Of the evil
men availed them not. The spirit of
concord and unity went abroad in the
city, and the people even did as the good
and the true and the wise said. And the
people joined together, and the thing
was done. The greedy and the arrogant,
tie factious and the turbulent, the hypo-
critical and the prohigate, even all those
tenacious of evil power were set aside.
And when the evil men were thus set
apart, the people marveled much at the
smallness of their numbers, and were
greatly ashamed that they had let them
tyrannize over them and their city for
so long. And the men of evil
were helpless and the good
and the wise and true of
the city led the people, and the strangers
from the east and from the west were
again sent for. And they came, and
were much astonished that they had
been so deceived. And the City by the
Salt Lake gathered unto itself prosperity
and greatness. And men came to it
from all quarters of the world with offer
ings of gold and of silver, and the city
increased in beauty and power. 1t was
the mart of commerce. Its broad aven-
ues thronged with life, and its thousand
spires were lofty and glittered, and the
City by the Salt Lake sat like queen in
the West.